[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Submit patch again?

[Vasco Alexandre Da Silva Costa <vasc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 15 Aug 2001, Karl-Ingo Friese wrote:

> > Ok, sorry, I was too rough. The core was: You were trying to change
> > something at the heart of the server, which would be too big a
> > mouthfull for a first patch. This was my assesment when I first saw
> > your patch. This is supported by the fact that the patch contained
> > bugs. (Which is perfectly understandable, bugs happen to the best
> > programmers when trying to make big changes.)
> 
> Actualy I made the same experience. I submited several patches in
> the past which were either ignored or at first wanted and then

That happens all the time. The traffic this mailing-list has, and the fact
people tend to not submit bugs/patches to bugs@xxxxxxxxxxx makes it easy
to lose a patch or a bug report. Adding something like [PATCH] to the
email subject would help.

> turned down with some "I will do that by myself when I have the
> time for it" reason. This is quite frustrating and gives me the
> impression that I am more or less wasting my time. No offense
> meant, but I wont submit any further patches to the official
> freeciv project. I will continue to maintain our local mod and
> make a few notices what I did. I will put the diffs on a web
> page so whoever wants them can try them out - or let it be.
> 
> I know how you feel Ben. Actualy, I liked your idea pretty much.

I for one agree with Thue in the point that watchtowers shouldn't
need units around them in order to work. Sure, having watchtowers would be
nice, but as the author said himself the patch isn't ready yet.
You got ignored. So what? So did i when i made about 4 releases of the
GTK+ client and noone commented. Guess what? Someone DID notice the effort
i was doing and i even got in the development team.

You people must realise we had a release 4 days ago. The last release was
more than one year ago. That was an awfully long time. Commiting a patch
that touches sensitive stuff at a time like this (it was proposed 6 days
ago, when we were in late beta testing) is seriously bad policy.

We don't want to turn into Mozilla here do we?

Don't despair. You can always succeed if you try hard enough.

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Vasco Alexandre da Silva Costa @ Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisboa